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How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World?

In quantum world things are routinely in multiple states at once - what we call a “superposition” of states. But in the classical world of large scales, things are either this or that. The famous thought experiment is Schrodinger’s cat - in which a cat is in an opaque box with a vial of deadly poison that’s released on the radioactive decay of an atom. Quantum mechanics tells us that the atom’s wavefunction can be in a superposition of states - simultaneously decayed or not decayed. So is the cat’s wavefunction also in a superposition of both dead and alive.

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  • Originally Aired March 16, 2020
  • Runtime 19 minutes
  • Production Code vSnq5Hs3_wI
  • Network PBS
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